good morning, jackhammer!

good thing i am battling a end-of-summer cold and could really use some extra rest because that is SIMPLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! not when there are things being built on every side of my apartment, from 7am on. right now i can't even hear the television, even though i shouldn't even be watching television because i should be sleeping BECAUSE I AM SICK but that is, as i mentioned, not going to happen. and not because i am being a baby or am a light sleeper or anything like that, but because, as you can see from the photographic evidence provided above, there is jackhammering and backhoe-ing and beep-beep-beeping going on within feet of my non-slumbering self. just in case you were wondering, no, it has not gotten any better.

and on top of this, to add insult to injury as it were, the people of the neighborhood, who are none too happy about all this building nonsense either, are pointing the finger directly at, you guessed it, whitey. and not that i don't think thats a finger well pointed, but when it comes to me, i'm not exactly the establishment. and i have to walk past a spray painted battle cry every day that reads "honkey go home" and "death to intruders" as well as weather verbal backlash, such as the old woman who yelled "cracker" at me on sunday while i was crossing third avenue.

now, i have a healthy sense of humor about all this, but again, i feel that all this malice is wasted on yours truly, as i am not the big bad honkey that my neighbors wish to rally against. those people will be here shortly, as all this jackhammering is being done in their honor. by that time, i may have spray painted some things myself.